Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snafu. To smash Festung Ploesti, U.S. air planners came up with a novel plan : a daring low-level attack that completely violated the high-level strategic bombing canons of most top Air Forces brass. The planners reasoned that a rooftop raid would give the striking B-24 Liberators an element of surprise, limit the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe, and throw off the accuracy of flak gunners primed for high-level raiders. How they miscalculated is the core of Authors Dugan and Stewart's taut and gripping tale of a disastrous yet heroic snafu - pieced together from letters, diaries, interviews...
HYRC president Peter J. Wallison '63 explained that the Club's main purpose in coming to Washington is to publicize the strength of the Republican element in the College and not to support the GOP speech-making effort. Wallison pointed out that plans to stage the talkathon were made only last weekend, whereas the Club's trip has been planned for four months...
...will readily understand, the ducks have been provided to aid us in our celebration of Easter. Now, a certain element among us may proclaim that there is something wrong in this. Purists may object, on theological grounds, to the intrusion of Eastern paganism in our more or less Christian spiritual life--saying that ducklings, bunnies and the like are nowhere officially authorized as part of the Christian ceremony--but, as any child will tell you, this is a too parochial outlook, not to mention stuffy. Doubtless, a wild-eyed anti-vivisectionist or two will maintain that man herein berays himself...
...would come in to campaign for him, bringing back memories of F.D.R. Second. we would emphasize that the other Democratic hopefuls were ganging up on him. Thirdly, Kennedy would deal with the religion issue head-on." From the Inside. With private polling now an inescapable and sometimes decisive element in the making of political decisions, Harris has become one of the most influential nonpoliticians...
...falling out between Reds added a new and explosive element to a situation that is rapidly passing into ultimate chaos...